The work of artist Tom Estes has been described as “darkly disturbing & hauntingly beautiful”. Photographer, videographer, curator and creator of multi-media performance & installation, artist Tom Estes has been hung, played and performed in a few of the world’s right places and a couple of deliciously wrong ones. Often site specific, interactive or suggestive of a latent performative quality, Estes’ interventions, stealth art and strange attractions seem to infer a surreal wit drawn from early sci-fi and horror films.
In May 2010, Tom Estes staged ‘Sewing Performance’ as a participant in The Really, Really Free Market (RRFM), a 3-day market organized as Post-Museum’s contribution to No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, held in Tate Modern.
Born outside of Boston in The U.S.A, artist Tom Estes moved to Paris and lived there for a couple of years before settling for London as his base of operations. Tom Estes has a degree in Fine Art from the prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design as well as a professional qualification in Video Production from the leading awarding body in The United Kingdom, City & Guilds.
Estes has been an active member of the artists collective The Red Velvet Curtain Cult and his works have been regularly displayed in public art galleries such as The Whitechapel Gallery and also some of the more cutting edge and experimental curation projects found in public institutions such as The New Gallery Walsall, The Centre for Recent Drawing, as well as projects organized by Tate Modern. Estes’ work can be found in private as well as permanent collections such as at Matt Roberts Arts and The Lethaby Gallery.